> But in his entire career, he never made a movie as good as "M"
Lifeboat? Notorious? Rear Window? To Catch a Thief?
To name just four?
> . . . and, in fact, the more "mature" he got, the more trivial his movies
got.
How are masterpieces like Frenzy and Family Plot trivial? Is there a greater dissection/critique of male power and social instability than Frenzy?
> I grant he always provided an excellent emotional roller coaster
ride. But that was it.
And how many other directors can you say this of over as long a period as Hitchcock did and for so many films?
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister